The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) (Bengali: স্বাস্থ্য অধিদপ্তর) is a Bangladeshi government directorate under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare responsible for health services in Bangladesh. The DGHS was established as a directorate in 1978. It was upgraded to a directorate general in 1980. On 23 January 2019, the Anti-Corruption Commission began investigating 23 officers at the DGHS for corruption and recommended their transfers. Director General of DGHS Abul Kalam Azad resigned on 22 July 2020 after Regent Hospital was raided for providing fake COVID-19-free certificates. The hospital was shut down by the DGHS on 8 July after a raid by the Rapid Action Battalion. The DGHS and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare traded blame over the Regent Hospital scandal. The DGHS signed a memorandum of understanding with Regent Hospital in March 2020, and the signing ceremony was attended by Minister of Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque. Another organization issuing fake COVID-19 certificates was JKG Healthcare. Officials at The DGHS requested JKG Healthcare to submit a proposal to collect COVID-19 samples for a scheme to siphon off from the 5 billion emergency COVID-19 fund. CEO of JKG Healthcare, Ariful Chaudhury and his wife and chairperson of JKG, Sabrina Arif Chaudhury, were arrested by police for issuing fake COVID-19 certificates. More information...
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